Mockingbird Build/ Warmoth Noob

[TVs Ross]

Hey y'all,

During a dangerous bout of eBay hunting at work I came across an old Warmoth Mockingbird body, and couldn't pass it up. I've always loved these but haven't gelled with one for a number of reasons, and never pulled the trigger on a build when I was younger because of a lack of any experience.

I built a jazzmaster a while back and love it, so as soon as my Tele's thin neck started giving me hand cramps that was the only excuse I needed, hahaha. I have no experience with guitar finishes and a friend of mine is a great artist so I'm just going with a drab backdrop for him to work with, shouldn't be too hard but only time will tell!

Most importantly, here are some pics!

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Next paycheck I'm planning on ordering a wenge/ebony neck, strat scale, 12" radius, Jazzmaster headstock. Nothing else too crazy, got some humbuckers and single coils lying around to try out, might add a series/parallel switch and do concentric a single vol/vol pot. Gold hardware for maximum tackiness, haha

Fixed, the Photobucket app deleted the pictures from my account for some reason.

 

[Glimmer]

If I didn't know that was a guitar Ida swore it was a cat!

 

[Gemcutter]

Could be, but I'll bet that if you take it by the neck and run the pick across it a few times, you'll be jammin'!

 

[Glimmer]

You could be right, ’cause you can pick your cats but you can't pick your friends’ noses.

Least that's what I've always heard.

:sign13:

 

[stratamania]

Where are the pics ?

 

[TVs Ross]

Fixed. Last time I use the photobucket app, ha.

 

[Pelagaard]

So, you're the one who outbid me...  Nice score. arty07:

 

[stratamania]

I see them now. Welcome and look forward to seeing it progress.

 

[TVs Ross]

So, you're the one who outbid me...  Nice score. arty07:

Thanks/ sorry! Hopefully another one'll pop up soon and what I do to this one won't be too enraging!